Perspective drawing as we know it today really began about 600 years ago during the Renaissance (re-birth) period in Europe.
One of the earliest and most famous examples of the use of perspective would be..

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Leonardo DaVinci's The Last Supper (1498).

Other famous examples include...

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Pietro Perugino - Sistine chaple fresco - 1481-82

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Vincent Van Gogh - Cafe Terrace at Night (1888)

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Jav Vermeer - Officer and Laughing Girl (c.1655-1660)

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Edvard Munch - The Scream (1893)
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Vincent Van Gogh - Night Cafe (1888)

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William Hogarth - Satire on false perspective - 1753


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M.C. Escher - Relativity - 1953

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